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Paperback:
9781601622815 | Urban Books, August 31, 2010, cover price $14.95
Hardcover:
9780025497603 | Macmillan Pub Co, September 1, 1983, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Beans Butler endangers his upcoming parole by deciding to support the inmates' demonstration for better prison conditions
Paperback:
9780758229021 | Reprint edition (Dafina, January 6, 2009), cover price $6.99
9780971702158 | Original edition (Melodrama Pub, December 15, 2005), cover price $15.00
Hardcover:
9781555532055 | Reprint edition (Northeastern Univ Pr, September 1, 1994), cover price $45.00
Paperback:
9781555532062 | Northeastern Univ Pr, October 11, 1994, cover price $19.95
Hardcover:
9780312278557 | St Martins Pr, October 1, 2001, cover price $23.95 | About this edition: After being released from prison, an aging black convict turns to heroin dealing again but soon realizes he must confront his own past if he hopes to build a new, better life for himself on the outside.
Paperback:
9780060739294 | Reprint edition (Harper Torch, January 1, 2005), cover price $6.99 | About this edition: Best friends since elementary school, Shemone's and Darrell's lives have taken divergent paths--Shemone on the straight and narrow, and Darrell ending up in prison--until they find their friendship gradually growing into love.
9780380814855 | Avon Books, December 1, 2002, cover price $13.95 | About this edition: Best friends since elementary school, Shemone's and Darrell's lives have taken divergent paths--Shemone on the straight and narrow, and Darrell ending up in prison--until they find their friendship gradually growing into love.
In Pale Horse Coming the unforgettable Earl Swagger returns in a searing follow-up to Hot Springs, Stephen Hunter's New York Times bestselling novel. It once again demonstrates why Hunter has been called "the only modern writer who can lay claim to being Dashiell Hammett's immediate successor." It's 1951, and the last place in America any sane man wishes to visit is Thebes State Penal Farm (Colored) in Thebes, Mississippi. Up a dark river, surrounded by swamps and impenetrable piney woods, it's the Old South at its most brutal -- a place of violence, racial terror, and even more horrific rumors. Of the few who make the journey, black or white, even fewer return. But in that year, two men will come to Thebes. The first is Sam Vincent, the former prosecuting attorney of Polk County, Arkansas. With great misgivings, Sam accepts a job from a smooth-talking Chicago lawyer to investigate a disappearance. Sam has heard of Thebes and knows that in the Negro culture he only imperfectly understands, the place has a special resonance of horror. Sam is a careful man. Before he leaves on this dangerous trip, he confesses his fears to his former investigator Earl Swagger, a Marine hero on Iwo Jima, veteran of the mob wars in Hot Springs, and now a sergeant of the Arkansas State Police. Earl pledges that if Sam is not back by a certain time, he will come looking for him. Sam will bring his knowledge of the law, his compassion, and his sense of the rational to Thebes, but Earl will bring only his guns. What they encounter there is something beyond their wildest imaginations for evil. The dying black town is ruled by white deputies on horseback who are more like an occupying army than a police force. Each citizen of the town is in debt to the Store, the one remaining civic institution, and the only escape is over the wild currents of the dark river that drowns as many people as it liberates. But nothing in the town can prepare Earl for the prison itself where he becomes the first white inmate. It is a site of fear: Run by an aging madman with insane theories of racial purity, it is administered by a brutally efficient Stalin of a guard sergeant known as Bigboy. The convicts call him The Whip Man -- he can take a man's soul with his nine feet of braided catgut. Both Sam and Earl will be challenged to the limits of their strength by this place and will struggle not only for their own survival, but with deeper questions: What does a man do when confronted with such evil? Can it be remedied? Can it be rectified, redirected, reformed? Or must it just be destroyed? And if so, where would you find the men to destroy it? Drawing on the oldest myths, classical and modern literature, popular culture at its most vigorous, and the Golden Age gun writers of the '50s, Pale Horse Coming is a stunning story of violence and retribution, written with the same high velocity of Hunter's classic thrillers Point of Impact, Dirty White Boys, Black Light, and Time to Hunt.
Hardcover:
9780786239504 | Large print edition (Thorndike Pr, March 1, 2002), cover price $28.95 | About this edition: In Pale Horse Coming the unforgettable Earl Swagger returns in a searing follow-up to Hot Springs, Stephen Hunter's New York Times bestselling novel.
9780743224024 | Large print edition (Simon & Schuster, February 1, 2002), cover price $25.00 | About this edition: In 1951, the disappearance of Sam Vincent, a former prosecutor assigned to investigate a prison for violent African-American convicts in Thebes, Mississippi, draws his old friend Earl Swagger into a dangerous confrontation with a town that guards itself from strangers with a private army of brutal, Klan-type thugs and rednecks.
Paperback:
9781416593645 | Reprint edition (Pocket Star, August 26, 2008), cover price $9.99 | About this edition: Pale Horse Coming
9780786239498 | Large print edition (Thorndike Pr, August 1, 2003), cover price $14.95 | About this edition: It's 1951, and the last place in America any sane man wishes to visit is Thebes State Penal Farm (colored) in Thebes, Mississippi.
9780671035464 | Pocket Books, November 26, 2002, cover price $7.99 | About this edition: In 1951, after Sam Vincent disappears while investigating a prison for violent African American convicts in Thebes, Mississippi, Earl Swagger finds himself confronting a town guarded by a private army of brutal, Klan-type thugs.
CD/Spoken Word:
9781455815678 | Unabridged edition (Brilliance Audio, April 10, 2012), cover price $29.99
9781455815692 | Mp3 una edition (Brilliance Audio, April 10, 2012), cover price $24.99
9780743537698 | Abridged edition (Simon & Schuster, March 15, 2004), cover price $14.95 | About this edition: STEPHEN HUNTER'S BLOCKBUSTER BESTSELLER AT A NEW LOW PRICE!
9780743509121 | Abridged edition (Simon & Schuster, October 1, 2001), cover price $32.00 | About this edition: In 1951, the disappearance of Sam Vincent, who was investigating a prison for violent African American convicts in Thebes, Mississippi, draws Earl Swagger into a confrontation with a town guarded by a private army of brutal, Klan-type thugs and rednecks.
Cassette/Spoken Word:
9780743537681 | Abridged edition (Encore Editions, June 30, 2006), cover price $14.95
9780743510066 | Abridged edition (Simon & Schuster, October 1, 2001), cover price $26.00 | About this edition: In 1951, the disappearance of Sam Vincent, who was investigating a prison for violent African American convicts in Thebes, Mississippi, draws Earl Swagger into a confrontation with a town guarded by a private army of brutal, Klan-type thugs and rednecks.
In 1951, the disappearance of Sam Vincent, a former prosecutor assigned to investigate a prison for violent African-American convicts in Thebes, Mississippi, draws his old friend Earl Swagger into a dangerous confrontation with a town that guards itself from strangers with a private army of brutal, Klan-type thugs and rednecks. 125,000 first printing.
Hardcover:
9780684863610 | Simon & Schuster, October 1, 2001, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: In 1951, the disappearance of Sam Vincent, who was investigating a prison for violent African American convicts in Thebes, Mississippi, draws Earl Swagger into a confrontation with a town guarded by a private army of brutal, Klan-type thugs and rednecks.
Paperback:
9780807127896 | Louisiana State Univ Pr, April 1, 2002, cover price $17.95
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9781601625342 | Reprint edition (Urban Books, December 4, 2012), cover price $6.99
9781601624307 | 1 edition (Urban Books, December 28, 2010), cover price $14.95
Hardcover:
9780312332686 | St Martins Pr, December 23, 2004, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: In jail after being charged with his father's murder, seventeen-year-old Antonio finds his love with sixteen-year-old Natasha tested and engages in a ten-year correspondence with her from behind bars.
Paperback:
9780312332693 | Reprint edition (Griffin, January 10, 2006), cover price $15.99 | About this edition: In jail after being charged with his father's murder, seventeen-year-old Antonio finds his love with sixteen-year-old Natasha tested and engages in a ten-year correspondence with her from behind bars.
9780312712228 | Large print edition (St Martins Pr, January 1, 2004), cover price $30.00
Miscellaneous:
9781429902441 | 1 edition (St Martins Pr, April 1, 2007), cover price $9.99
CD/Spoken Word:
9781593976026 | Unabridged edition (St Martins Pr, January 1, 2005), cover price $29.95 | About this edition: In jail after being charged with his father's murder, seventeen-year-old Antonio finds his love with sixteen-year-old Natasha tested and engages in a ten-year correspondence with her from behind bars.
Prebinding:
9781435270176 | Reprint edition (Paw Prints, May 9, 2008), cover price $21.95
9781417761432 | Turtleback Books, January 10, 2006, cover price $24.45 | About this edition: In jail after being charged with his father's murder, seventeen-year-old Antonio finds his love with sixteen-year-old Natasha tested and engages in a ten-year correspondence with her from behind bars.
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